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Having installed your Adobe Photoshop programme and read all the tool tips, you are ready to get started with Photoshop! With luck you have practiced all the basic tools and have your image open for editing. The first thing you need to decide is the direction you want to take your image. Whether its a landscape image or a portrait, there will always be the initial thought of how you would like it to look. For a basic portrait you will firstly need to decide how much editing you want to do. Some images lend themselves more to less. Skin textures and tones can really lend themselves to an image, especially on a charactor portrait, but can be rare that you find someone that actually wants you to keep those blemishes, bruises, or loose hairs in their portraits. Many think that photo editing is wrong and that the best images should be untouched… Continue reading →